U.S. At Odds With Afghanistan Over The Post-Withdrawal Mission -- L.A. Times
The two countries have been haggling for months over details of the United States' role after troops are pulled out by the end of 2014.
WASHINGTON — Closed-door negotiations to determine the American military mission in Afghanistan after 2014 have stalled over U.S. demands to conduct lethal counter-terrorism operations and Afghan insistence that Washington guarantee support in event of cross-border attacks.
President Hamid Karzai is balking at Obama administration demands that U.S. special operations troops and the CIA be allowed to capture or even kill suspected terrorists after most U.S. troops close out America's longest war at the end of next year, according to officials familiar with the negotiations.
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